BiMes 19, 191, 250 9-02957

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P248448.

Transliteration

[(...)] _iri_ u2-za-ar-nim#
dingir-szu-na-s,ir
[dumu] bur-suen
[ARAD] ne3-eri11-gal

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — BiMes 19, 191, 250 9-02957. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: HMA 9-02957 (Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA) — from Nerebtum (mod. Iščali) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P248448). source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P248448..

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